Combination-tool



(No Model) G. G. TROUT. COMBINATION TOOL.

No. 513,742. Patented Jan. 30, 1894.

oARvER o. TRoUT, or SHARON, PENNSYLVANIA.

COM BINATION-TOOL- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 513,742, dated January 3.0, 1894.

Application filed May 31, 1893.

T0 at whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CARVER O. TROUT, a citizen of the United'States, and a resident of Sharon, in the county of Mercer and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combination-Tools, of which the following is a description.

My invention relates to wire-working tools, and my improvement therein consists in provision whereby the handle of the tool is adapted to form a hold and carrier for a separate wlre-twisting tool, so that the latter will be out of the way for convenient use as a part of the wire-working tool, as illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 shows in perspective my improved tool, which, among other things, forms a clamp for the wires in splicing them and a holder for retaining a separate twisting tool-part when not being used. Fig. 2 shows the tool in its use as a clamp for the wires while being spliced by the twisting tool-part. Fig. 3 shows the twisting tool-part as constructed for large or small wires; and Fig. 4 shows the way in which the twisting tool part is retained out of theway on the clamping tool-part. Fig. 5 shows the pivoted jaw parts and the wire clamp formed by the groooves in non-co-incident relation on the inner sides of the jawhandles.

The tool is constructed of handled parts pivoted together to form grip jaws suited both for nut and for pipe wrenches and for pliers or nippers. These jaws are flattened at their strongest joint part to form hammer faces, a, a, on their opposite sides; while the pivoted portion is formed with radial recesses b bb' joining thehammer faces and between the handle parts adapted to register when the arms are opened to receivea wire and to form shearing edges adapted to out the wire when said arms are closed to carry the recesses out of alignment in a manner Well-known in wire cutting tools. The'handle ends are formed with a screw-driver cand a clawed nailpull d--. The inner side of each handle part near the joint is formed with a notch or groove -e' standing cross-wise but not in co-incident relation with each other, for the purpose of receiving separate strands or wires Serial No. 476,118. (No model.)

and holding and clamping them in parallel relation like a vise, when the handles are closed. The inner side of one of the handle parts has aheaded stud fand a short distance therefrom, said handle part has a surface concave depression -g and this headed stud and depression I use as the means of attaching and for retaining a separate twisting tool-part -h on thehandle so as to hold it out of the way when not using it. This twisting tool-part I make of a strong plate five or six inches long and a half to three-quarters of an inch wide. Its ends are bent over so as to form hook-laps -i adapted to receive and hook over the wire --j to be spliced. At each end of the plate it is cut away at the edge so as to form a curved shoulder lc alike in the lapped parts, and these shoulders at one end are suited for large and at the other end for small wires. These shoulders k at both ends are preferably formed on the same edge. As shown this twisting tool part is hooked over one of the clamped wires j with the bent end of one of the wires to be twisted in the shouldered part kand then turning the twisting tool with its shouldered part against the bent end Z of the other wire, coils it over and around the wire on which the twister is hooked, as many times as it is necessary to make a strong splicing of the wires, the coils being closely twisted. As the shoulders kare formed on both the lapped parts, the twister can be turned in either direction to engage the bent end of the wire to be twisted. This allows the tool to make either a right or left twist in splicing the wires. As the two tool parts are used together in splicing wires-one as a vise and the other as a twister-they should therefore, always be readyfor use together. The twister part for this purpose I make with a slot madapted to engage the headed stud fon the handle part of the vise, and also with a surface swell -n to engage the cavity g in said handle part, and thereby retain the twister in place'out of the way when it is not being used. When so placed the twister is locked by the headed stud -f and by its spring capacity, its swell -n is sprung into the cavity in the handle, so that to remove it,

depression, and a wire-twisting tool having a slot and a surface projection adapted to engage the said handle-stud and surface depression, whereby to form a hold and carrier for the said twisting-tool, as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed this specification in the presence of witnesses.

CARVER O. TROUT.

Witnesses:

A. W. WILLIAMS, F. G. TAYLOR. 

